Author, psychologist and meditation teacher Tara Brach said: "Attention is the greatest form of love." Ponder this with me: In our attention economy where bots and algorithms and influencers and corporations and everyone and their brother is trying to capture our attention, what does it mean that attention is the greatest form of love? Who […]

Professor of Psychology and Spirituality, David Benner, said that most people believe that God is either angry at them or disappointed in them. This belief damages our relationship with God, of course. Who wants to seek out or reach toward a being who is angry at us? Or who expresses constant disappointment in us? Answer: […]

"This is the great message of the Christian faith: that God loves us and that nothing can separate us from this love. You don't need to earn it. There is nothing you can do to stop it. There is nothing you need to do to receive it, save accept it as the free gift it […]

This is my annual Pride Month repost of this message of love ... I don't often make religious claims with absolute certainty. Not my style. But I am gonna' do it right here, right now. After studying the life of Jesus in the Gospels for the last 40 years, I can state with absolute certainty […]

Good Friday is dark. The compassionate, merciful, God-man dies a criminal's death at the hands of religious and political leaders. The Messiah, full of despair and feeling deserted by God the Father, cries out, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" Even the earth wept and quaked. Yet somehow, we call it good. Emil Brunner, […]

And he is in the face of your neighbor, in the cries of the poor. In the bellies of hungry children, in the prisoner, the sick, the naked, the lost, the lonely, your enemy. Happy Easter, friends. He is risen. Jesus is on the loose. And you have one job -- go find him. And […]